Q&A With Jessica Young
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Every so often, I ask a few questions of my favorite improvisers at iO and try to find out more about their performance journey. I’ve long admired Jessica’s ability to move a scene forward, serve her partner in that scene, be really specific about everything and always be very funny. You can currently see Jessica at iO West in Hollywood with The Cartel on Wednesdays at 10pm and with Kind Strangers on Fridays at 10. Check out the iO website for more details. And check out my interview with Jessica below!
How did you get started in improv?
My first stage experience with Improv was while I was in college at the University of Alabama. The theatre program there was “Classical Theatre Training,” meaning the closest I got to do doing comedy was playing Lady Bracknell in the Importance of Being Ernest. I was dying to break away from that and a group of us in the theatre department started something called Guerilla Theatre. It was twice a month late at midnight on Fridays. Any one from campus could sign up for 5 minutes of stage time to do whatever you wanted. It was my savior. Through this venue, I could try out sketches, monologues and improv for the first time in front of a real audience. We had no idea it would take off as big as it did…the fire marsall shut us down one night as we were far above legal capacity. It was at that moment when we realized, this is
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